Where's the outrage for a local shooting injustice?

Outside the Funeraria Latina Emanuel funeral home on Monday, there were no protesters. No Al Sharpton. No Jesse Jackson. No celebrities shouting, "No rest until there's an arrest." Nobody selling buttons that say, "I am McKayla" or shirts that say, "Justice for Paterson."

One day earlier, thousands gathered at Miami's Bayfront Park to express outrage over the shooting death of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin by Sanford neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, a case that has sparked international attention.

But on this desolate stretch of West Dixie Highway in northeast Miami-Dade on Monday, nobody was taking up the cause for the unfortunate victims of another triggerman who has managed to elude arrest.

Instead, there was silence. And indifference. It was as if Friday night's horror never happened. As if a shooter – or shooters – never opened fire on a crowded parking lot after a wake. As if Paterson Dubreus, 27, of Miami, and Laurore Ornis, 43, of Fort Pierce, weren't killed. As if 5-year-old McKayla Bazile and 11 others weren't wounded.

On Monday, the shooting suspects were still at large, with police seeking clues and information. The funeral home parking lot was empty, save for some empty beer bottles and a crumpled pouch of Capri Sun fruit punch. There were no candles, no flowers, no impromptu memorials for the fallen and wounded.

And little discernible community outrage.

I asked a half dozen people who walked past the scene if they knew about the shooting or had any thoughts. Nobody wanted to speak or give their names.

The funeral home's front door was locked, and a worker who returned a phone message said, "We're not allowed to give any comments."

Police say the rampage was gang-related, possibly sparked by somebody reaching into the casket of Morvin Andre, 21, who jumped to his death at the Aventura Mall parking garage last month while he was being pursued after using a stolen credit card.

Relatives of the shooting victims are pleading for the suspects to turn themselves in. "Any gun violence, whether it is interracial or not, is a detriment to this community as a whole," A.D. Lenoir, a pastor who witnessed the shooting, wrote me by email on Monday.

I put in calls to the heads of the Miami-Dade and Fort Lauderdale chapters of the NAACP, the civil rights organization that has been calling for justice in the Trayvon Martin case, to find out if similar outcries would be coming if this case remains unsolved. I didn't hear back by deadline.

Doesn't the funeral home shooting, which violates all sense of human decency, deserve people pushing for answers and justice, too? Isn't the gang violence that has become so routine a bigger threat to more of us — black, Hispanic and white — than a rare overzealous neighborhood watch volunteer?

Yet we likely won't see the Funeraria Latina shooting victims become a national cause.

What does it say that such a tragedy seems to be accepted much more readily — and quietly — than Martin's?